Monthly Archive for February, 2014

: February, 2014

It’s not exactly a street car, but the 1968 Porsche known as the 907 Longtail is coming up for sale at the Gooding & Co. auction at Amelia Island, Ga., in about a week and it is indeed an historic car. Gooding says it was raced at Le Mans (it won its class in 1971) […] …

A while back, Pepsi MAX (I don’t even know what that is) teamed up with racing legend Jeff Gordon to create a funny prank video of a fake test drive with Gordon at the wheel. The internet didn’t believe it was real so Pepsi and Gordon today said they made a follow-up prank and documented […] …

That’s a Volvo? Wow. Volvo has cobbled up a new estate – shooting brake to you, or even shooting break, depending on your spelling – and it is clearly a design coup. Word is that this racy two-door concept wagon will be showed off at the upcoming Geneva International Motor Show (March 6-16). No word […] …

Lexus, Acura and Audi – all of them luxury cars – scored highest in Consumer Reports’ annual derby to determine the best overall brands of cars sold in U.S. showrooms, the non-profit testing organization said today. Lexus scored highest, followed, by Acura and Audi. Audi managed to move up from its last-year position of eighth […] …

270.49 miles per hour. You heard that right, Hennessey Performance Engineering, the Texas-based supercar builder has set a new world record, making the Venom GT the fastest top speed of a production car, ever. Driver Brian Smith, of Miller Motorsport, took to the 3.2-mile space shuttle landing runway at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape […] …

Let’s take as a given that pure-electric cars, hybrid cars and plug-in hybrid cars are in a decidedly small niche in these opening years of the 21st century. But if you take two steps back and look at the future of automotive transportation over the next century, we are clearly on a frontier. A hundred […] …

They may be the most widely seen cars on the planet, if you count the number of times the James Bond movies have been shown — in theaters, on broadcast networks, cable outlets and satellite television, through DVD players, and on computer screens, tablets and small phones. Michael Dezer, a Miami real estate developer, is […] …

We are pretty much used to cars of a manageable size — the typical midsize sedan, such as Chevrolet’s Impala, Honda’s Accord or the Hyundai Sonata. So when a big car comes along, we have to wonder whether the size is worth it. How much do we really need to haul? The Big Three car […] …

Corvette Chevy Expo and Vette Vues Magazine hosted their annual Corvette Chevy Expo at the Reliant Center. This two-day Chevrolet extravaganza took place on Feb. 15-16 along with a bikini contest conducted by Swimsuit USA to compete for the title of Miss Corvette Chevy Expo. …

If you think of the Ford Escape as a taller Ford Focus, it helps you, um, focus on what the Escape is all about – a way for Ford to capitalize on the agile handling of the Focus in a small SUV that absorbs more luggage and all the other stuff that goes in the […] …